INSEAD Research & Learning Hub

• The Primary of GDP
• Monitoring GDP
• Forecasting GDP

• Currency Market Mechanics
• Currency Valuation
• Central Banks and Currencies
• Currencies Risk

• The Root of the Bond Market
• Bond Valuation Drivers
• Central Bankers & Interest Rates
• The Yield Curve & Why It Matters
• Movements in the Yield Curve

• Introducing the Stock Market
• The Nature of Equities
• Equity Research
• Absolute Valuation
• Relative Valuation

INTRODUCTION TO ESG & SUSTAINABLE FINANCE

• Explain factors and sustainable investing
• Define financial materiality
• Describe the growth of ESG AUM and ETF flows
• Explain de origins of sustainable investing

RESEARCHING & ADOPTING ESG

• Describe ESG trends and common ESG investment strategies
• Describe drivers that led to the rise of sustainable investing
• Analyze how asset managers research ESG market demand to inform sustainability priorities

NEGATIVE EXCLUSIONARY SCREENING AND POSITIVE SCREENING

• Explain negative exclusionary and positive screening strategies
• Use Bloomberg tools to perform negative and positive security screening for idea generation

ESG INTEGRATION - FIXED INCOME

• Analyze integration of ESG considerations into the fixed income workflow
• Use Bloomberg tools to perform sustainable debt analysis

ESG INTEGRATION - EQUITIES​

• Analyze integration of ESG considerations into the equity workflow
• Use Bloomberg tools to perform equity analysis​

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE & SHAREHOLDER ACTIVISM

• Explain corporate governance and how shareholder activism is used to influence corporate behavior
• Use Bloomberg tools to analyze shareholder activist sentiments and prepare for company engagement

REPORTING SUSTAINABILITY ACTIVITIES

• Explain EU Taxonomy and SFDR
• Use Bloomberg to check for EU Taxonomy alignment and create SFDR report